The new red carpet status symbol? Legs: you can’t fake them, and the stars were only too happy to get them out

Miranda Kerr’s was so high that she had to use her clutch bag as a merkin; Eva
Longoria’s made her look like she’d borrowed someone else’s legs for the
evening (very possibly those of an elderly turkey). Halle Berry’s exposed
her right leg at a very uncomfortable angle; even Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley’s normally colt-like lower limb seemed awkward poking
out of hers.

We’re talking splits, of course. Specifically split skirts, of the kind
pioneered at last year’s Oscars by Angelina Jolie.

Back then, you may remember, Angie’s right leg, naked and muscly and eerily
white, stole the show on the red